Pickle-fork holder



C. A. LEWIS.

PICKLE FORK HOLDER.

APPLiCATION FILED OCT. 9, 19:7.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Inventor. r2". Logo W CHARLES A. LEWIS, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

PIGKLE-FORK HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Application filed October 9, 1917. Serial No. 195,515.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES AUSTEN LEWIS, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and resident of the city of Toronto, county of York, Provinceof Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Pickle- Fork Holders, described in the followingspecification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, that formpart of the same.

The objects of the present invention are, to provide a means for holdinga pickle fork on a bottle in such a manner as to avoid soiling the tablecloth, and to provide a holder into which the fork may be readilyinserted and which will hold the same securely and further to devise areadily placed upon any size or shape of bottle.

The principal feature of the invention consists in the novelconstruction of the holder whereby a pocket shaped receptacle is securedby a flexible extensible band to the side of the bottle and a clampmember is arranged above the receptacle to engage and hold the forkhandle.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showin my deviceattached to a bottle with the for held in place therein.

Fig. 2 is aside elevational view of the holder.

3 is a front elevational holder.

Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the holder removed from the bottle.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a pocket shaped member preferably formedof thin sheet metal, having a perpendicular back 2 adapted to restagainst the face of the bottle.

The side walls 3 slope inwardly from the top and at the upper edge areflared outwardly forming the flanges 4:.

The front Wall of the pocket is formed to view of the holder which maybe.

slope upwardly and outwardly from the back and forms a guide to directthe points of the fork inwardly so that the points will always rest inthe apex of the wedge-shaped pocket.

5 is a stem which extends upwardly from the center of the back 2 havingat its upper end forwardly projecting fingers 6 forming spring clipsadapted to engage and hold the handle of the fork 7.

The longitudinal edges of the stem 5 are bent outwardly to form the hookshaped flanges 8 which are adapted to receive the looped ends of theelastic band 9. One loop of the band 9 is inserted in one of the hookflanges 8 and the band is then drawn around the bottle and the otherloop end inserted in the other hook flange.

The double loops of the band 9 thus encircling the bottle are held apartby the length of the flanges 8 and they hold the device securely in aperpendicular position against the side of the bottle. The flexible bandwill of course accommodate itself to any shape or size of bottle.

The peculiar wedge shape of the receptacle holds the fork always closein to the bottle and also enables its being easily cleaned.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A pickle fork holder, comprising, asheet metal member having inwardly turned portions on the longitudinaledges and a receptacle at the bottom and holding fingers at the topadapted to engage the handle of the fork, and means supported by thebottle for engaging said flanges to hold the holder thereto.

2. A pickle fork holder, comprising, a receptacle having an uprightextension formed with longitudinal hook shaped flanges, spring clipsextending forwardly from the top end of said extension, and an elasticband having its looped ends secured in said longitudinal hook flangesand extending around the bottle.

C. A. LEWIS.

